• • • International relations ( IR) or international affairs ( IA) — commonly also referred to as international studies ( IS), global studies ( GS), or global affairs ( GA) — is the study of interconnectedness of, and on a global level. Depending on the academic institution, it is either a field of, an academic field similar to, or an entirely independent academic in which students take a variety of internationally focused courses in and disciplines. In all cases, the field studies relationships between political entities () such as, (IGOs), (INGOs), other (NGOs), and (MNCs), and the wider produced by this interaction. International relations is an and a field, and so can be and, because it analyses and formulates the of a given state.
Radical Theory of International Relations. Radical Theory derives its views from Marxist Theory. It is therefore sometimes referred to as Marxism, Socialism or Socialists internationalism. Radicals believe that the state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another.